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Make your own gesture controlled Wizards Walking Staff

Make your own gesture-controlled Wizard’s Walking Staff

Story This project uses the Arduino 101, a battery and an LED strip to make a gesture-controlled Wizard’s Walking Staff. We’ll define three different light-display “spells” you can summon by moving the staff in one of three gestures. Tech: The code uses the Inertial Measurement Unit in the Arduino 101 to read G-forces, but does […]

MorseCard A Tiny Telegraph Station

MorseCard – A Tiny Telegraph Station

Story Behold: the MorseCard! Fulfill your dreams of becoming a telegraph operator (or just make something cool to show your friends) with this weekend project. The MorseCard features a high-contrast OLED screen that will decipher whatever you tap out. I have written a variety of different sketches for the MorseCard, as the video above shows, […]

DIY Voltmeter with Arduino and a Nokia 5110 Display

DIY Voltmeter with Arduino and a Nokia 5110 Display

Story In this tutorial I am going to show you how to build a Voltmeter with a big Nokia 5110 LCD display using Arduino. Building a voltmeter is a great learning experience. When you finish building this project, you will have a better understanding of how voltmeters work, you will refresh your knowledge of Ohms […]

Plant Monitoring System using AWS IoT

Plant Monitoring System using AWS IoT

Story Picture this you are going on a vacation for a week or so and are worried about your house plant at home.Here is a great project to under take a week before you head out for your vacation. Build yourself a plant monitoring and notification system with the following feature Monitor the Temperature,Light Value and Soil […]

LedMatrix Tweet Visualization

LedMatrix Tweet Visualization

Story Description Display tweets with a certain hashtag on a led-matrix using an Arduino/Genuino Yùn or Yùn-Shield. We will use a Python script to log into twitter and check for updates. Configuring the Yun101/YunShield In order to connect your board to internet you first have to configure some parameters. Open your Arduino IDE and go […]

Purdue ExoMIND Glove

Purdue ExoMIND Glove A Wearable Device

Description The ExoMind Glove is a wearable device equipped with 7 accelerometers that are used to quantify forearm, wrist, and finger angles. Additionally, an EMG with conductive fabric electrodes is secured into the sleeve of the device to monitor muscle activity. The glove houses an Arduino 101 which runs an interactive program to prompt the […]

Integrating Wiscore Alexa EVK and Arduino via Serial Port

Integrating Wiscore Alexa EVK and Arduino via Serial Port

Story Wiscore: Integrating Arduino with Alexa As part of the series of tutorials for the Wiscore Alexa AVS EVK, we will see how to integrate Arduino boards (Uno, Leonardo, Due etc) directly with Alexa Voice Service. The Wiscore board provides the means to communicate with other devices via the UARTs. We will in depth on […]

Arduino101 tinyTILE BLE Match Making Sunglasses

Arduino101 / tinyTILE BLE: Match-Making Sunglasses

Story Instead of using an app, what if you could send a signal to eye-contact someone you are interested in talking to, in a social setting, even from afar? I’m not proposing a different way to start a date. I’m exploring a new usage of Bluetooth in the field of human interactions. When I found […]

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